Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory.

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.